Oh, I hear you. I just don't think anyone else can tell a person to just snap out of their misery. They have to get there on their own. It can be aggravating to deal with though.

Recently, my cousin was at the bank getting paperwork together because they are having to sell their land and home that has been in their family for over 60 years because they have suffered two devastating 100-year floods in the past 6 months. They've gone through evacuations, loss of livestock, serious financial hardship, fear for their lives, and now, the loss of their home. So what does the 20-year-old college coed at the bank want to talk about? How her life was just SO bad because she had a fight with her boyfriend and two tests that day? She whined and moaned and groaned the whole time she was waiting on my cousin about totally trivial crap. My cousin just bit her tongue and shook her head. Such teeny-bopper drama over absolutely trivial stuff when my cousin's own life was devastated. But it wouldn't have done any good to put the coed in her place. She'll grow up eventually.